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Invitrogen awarded contract extension for biothreat detection by U.S. Department of Defense

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 15th, 2006

Invitrogen Corp. (IVGN), a life science company providing technologies to support disease research and drug discovery, announced that its subsidiary, Invitrogen Federal Systems, was awarded a $1,243,000 extension to an existing contract with the U.S. Department of Defense.

The contract will support research using Invitrogen's proprietary ProtoArray protein microarray technology to detect and analyze biothreat agents such as hemorrhagic fever viruses, poxviruses, and Bacillus anthracis (anthrax). This research will build upon work conducted under the original technical assistance agreement for $970,000 awarded in January 2006, which focused on the detection and...

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